Finance Contracts in Northamptonshire

Financial
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 91 66 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 29.84% 25.19% 17.87%
As % of the General category 41.18% 42.31% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 56 27
10th Percentile £313 £356 £321
25th Percentile £358 £382 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £435 £455
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -4.40% +2.25%
75th Percentile £470 £568 £575
90th Percentile £500 £594 £640
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.00% +11.11%

All General Skills
Northamptonshire

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 221 156 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 72.46% 59.54% 56.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 119 83
10th Percentile £268 £312 £308
25th Percentile £350 £375 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £450 £531 £538
90th Percentile £525 £601 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -9.66% -6.32% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £16.81 £30.04 £35.03
25th Percentile - £40.45 £50.50
Median hourly rate £21.39 £51.74 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.66% +1.45% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £59.06 £51.50
90th Percentile - £59.63 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £24.50 £17.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +40.00% -60.45% +92.39%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Northamptonshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Northamptonshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Northamptonshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Northamptonshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton -2 87 £402 -7.59% 36
Finance
East Midlands

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) SAS
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (1.10%) Actimize
4 1 (1.10%) BASE24
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.27%) AWS
2 13 (14.29%) Azure
3 4 (4.40%) SaaS
3 4 (4.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.20%) BrowserStack
4 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.10%) Apigee
5 1 (1.10%) Asana
5 1 (1.10%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.10%) GCP
5 1 (1.10%) Kong
5 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) ATM
1 1 (1.10%) DMZ
1 1 (1.10%) Firewall
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
1 1 (1.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) Big Data
1 7 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 5 (5.49%) Apache Hive
2 5 (5.49%) HBase
3 4 (4.40%) Impala
4 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.30%) Tableau
5 2 (2.20%) Metadata
5 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.20%) Power BI
5 2 (2.20%) QlikView
5 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.10%) DB2
6 1 (1.10%) Looker
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.10%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Git
2 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.30%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) Selenium
2 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
2 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.20%) JMeter
3 2 (2.20%) JUnit
3 2 (2.20%) Maven
3 2 (2.20%) Mockito
3 2 (2.20%) Postman
3 2 (2.20%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.10%) Gradle
4 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.10%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.10%) Mocha
General
1 33 (36.26%) Banking
2 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Legal
5 5 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Marketing
7 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Front Office
8 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Analyst
2 19 (20.88%) Architect
3 18 (19.78%) Business Analyst
4 11 (12.09%) Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (9.89%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.59%) Change Manager
7 6 (6.59%) Programme Manager
7 6 (6.59%) Project Change Manager
8 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Product Owner
9 4 (4.40%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Lead
9 4 (4.40%) Payments Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Scrum Master
10 3 (3.30%) Digital Analyst
10 3 (3.30%) Finance Business Analyst
10 3 (3.30%) Payments Analyst
10 3 (3.30%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.30%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) RESTful
1 5 (5.49%) Spring
2 4 (4.40%) Hibernate
2 4 (4.40%) REST
2 4 (4.40%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.30%) SOAP
4 2 (2.20%) .NET
4 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.20%) CSS
4 2 (2.20%) HTML
4 2 (2.20%) J2EE
4 2 (2.20%) JMS
4 2 (2.20%) Kafka
4 2 (2.20%) Middleware
4 2 (2.20%) RAML
4 2 (2.20%) Web Services
5 1 (1.10%) FIDO
5 1 (1.10%) NgRx
5 1 (1.10%) RxJS
5 1 (1.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.49%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) APACS
5 1 (1.10%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.10%) Derivative
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) PMI
5 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.76%) Agile
2 24 (26.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (19.78%) Business Strategy
3 18 (19.78%) Scrum
4 17 (18.68%) Decision-Making
5 15 (16.48%) Project Delivery
6 14 (15.38%) ETL
7 13 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 12 (13.19%) Microservices
8 12 (13.19%) Roadmaps
8 12 (13.19%) Waterfall
9 11 (12.09%) Business Analysis
9 11 (12.09%) Change Management
9 11 (12.09%) Project Management
10 10 (10.99%) CI/CD
10 10 (10.99%) Migration
10 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (9.89%) Budget Management
11 9 (9.89%) SDLC
12 8 (8.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.58%) Java
2 14 (15.38%) SQL
3 6 (6.59%) Scala
4 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.10%) C++
6 1 (1.10%) COBOL
6 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.10%) Python
6 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (4.40%) Degree
2 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) PMP
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) CBAP
4 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.10%) IIBA
4 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.10%) SAS Certification
4 1 (1.10%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.30%) PMO
3 2 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) GRC
3 2 (2.20%) NIST
4 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.10%) Basel III
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) MiFID
4 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Docker
1 2 (2.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.10%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (1.10%) Oozie
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle
2 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.20%) Nintex
4 1 (1.10%) Databricks
4 1 (1.10%) Hitachi
4 1 (1.10%) HP
4 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.10%) Splunk
4 1 (1.10%) Teradata